On the Avenue.

Chapter 404 Alive!

Qingzhou, night falls.

Li Tianqing was walking on the streets of Qingzhou, and a small courtyard appeared behind his mind.

All around were terrified people, running in all directions and crying.

A few days ago, towering ghosts and gods appeared outside Qingzhou City. There were also ghosts eating people. There were even ghost messengers who drove boats to the riverside to capture ghosts, which had already made the people of Qingzhou panic.

Qingzhou Governor Liu Dingchen led the government soldiers to rush towards the city gate. Other officials in the city fled or hid. Qingzhou's internal affairs had long been in chaos, and only 50% to 60% of the government soldiers under his command had escaped.

He also wanted to escape, but he didn't dare to.

He was afraid of the Red Horse Bandits.

At that time, the Red Horse Bandits chopped the corrupt officials of Qingzhou like cutting melons and vegetables, causing rivers of blood to flow throughout the officialdom of Qingzhou. Almost all the officials were replaced, but he was the only one who was not chopped to death by the Red Horse Bandits because he was relatively honest in his official duties.

Since then, the people of Qingzhou have worshipped the Red Horse Bandit, built temples for him, and offered incense.

If he ran away, he was worried that the Red Horse Bandits would find him and kill him with a single blow.

What's more, the sun is the sun of the entire Xiniu New Continent. If the sun goes out, other places will probably be the same as Qingzhou.

Even if not for the people of Qingzhou, I must fight for a way of survival for myself, my wife and children!
He must protect Qingzhou City!

Now everyone in Qingzhou City is in danger, and some daring people are taking advantage of the chaos to rob wealth. If it were usual, Liu Dingchen would definitely order these lawless people to be arrested, but now he must defend Qingzhou City.

The terrifying roars of ghosts were heard from the city gate. Liu Dingchen led the crowd to the city wall and looked down. He saw hundreds of ghosts galloping across the wilderness under the moonlight and coming towards this side at a very fast speed.

Each of those ghosts was more than ten feet tall, hideous and terrifying, covered with bones, and some were holding weapons.

Behind the ghosts, there was a ghost with a towering body that was thousands of feet tall, looking down from afar. He shook his body, and ghosts of all sizes swarmed off his body like fleas, joining the torrent of ghosts and rushing towards this side.

"Block it!" Liu Dingchen shouted loudly, but his voice was trembling.

The soldiers on the city wall were chilled and looked at the ghosts getting closer and closer in horror.

"I can't stop it. I can't stop it at all..." A young soldier's legs were shaking.

At this time, talismans flew out from the city, shining in the sky and turning into golden "Ding" characters!

The length of the word "Ding" is about 16 or 17 feet, and it is about 40 feet away from the city wall.

Liu Dingchen was stunned. Looking back, he saw the talisman masters from Hongshan Hall leaping onto the city wall.

Various talismans flew out from their waists and floated on their fingertips. The talismans had already started burning, ready to be used.

They were powerful and well-organized, and even more elite than the soldiers under his command.

Liu Dingchen knew Hongshan Hall, which was a talisman master association that had emerged in the last six months. It recruited scholars who had failed the imperial examinations and unemployed juren at home, taught them skills and talisman writing techniques, and took these rookie talisman masters to hunt down evil spirits and make money by killing them.

In just half a year, the Hongshan Hall Talisman Master Association has grown a lot. There are more than 200 people in Qingzhou City, and dozens of people in each county across Qingzhou.

These people are all talisman masters, and to the court, they are restless guys. These people gather together, and we need to be on guard. Liu Dingchen also reported this to the court and submitted a memorial, saying: "The talisman masters of Hongshan Hall gather in the countryside, secretly teach magic, form associations and teach disciples, and their whereabouts are secret. The talisman masters help each other and are very united. If this continues, there will definitely be chaos, and I am afraid that there will be rebellious intentions."

He proposed to the court that Hongshan Hall should be abolished as soon as possible, and the hall master and incense master of Hongshan Hall should be arrested or killed. In this way, the talisman masters would be leaderless and the disaster could be eliminated.

However, there was no news from the Xijing court.

“They really became a phenomenon.”

Liu Dingchen looked at these Hongshan Hall Talisman Masters, whose spirit and energy were far beyond the reach of his own soldiers, and thought to himself, "Their leader must have great ambitions! Why should I think about these things when disaster is imminent?"

The sound made by the ghosts when they rushed over was like thousands of horses galloping. They rushed here and soon rushed into forty feet, breaking into the influence range of the immobilization talisman. One by one, they were like mosquitoes hitting a spider web and were fixed on the spot.

At this time, a voice sounded: "Heavenly Thunder Yin."

The voice sounded familiar, and Liu Dingchen hurriedly looked in the direction of the sound, but in his haste he could not see clearly who was speaking under the moonlight.

Talismans flew out from the fingertips of those talisman masters, which instantly triggered thunder in the sky. Bolts of lightning fell from the sky and struck the heads of those ghosts and monsters, instantly knocking them down one by one!
More ghosts came from behind, stepping on the corpses of their companions and rushing forward. With roars, they leaped up and tore the talismans in the air into pieces.

They landed heavily on the ground and rushed towards the city wall.

"Five Mountains Talisman." The familiar voice sounded again.

Talismans flew out from the fingertips of those talisman masters, and transformed into huge mountains in the air that fell from the sky, suppressing all the ghosts and monsters that were rushing towards them, making it difficult for them to move forward.

The voice sounded again: "The first move of the Ziwu Sword is the stabbing sword move."

A group of talisman masters each made sword gestures with their hands and thrust their sword fingers out. Invisible sword energy pierced through the sky and pierced the bodies of those ghosts and monsters, causing them to fall down one after another.

Liu Dingchen thought to himself, "The owner of this voice is not very old. I must have heard it somewhere before."

Just as he thought of this, he suddenly saw hundreds of feet tall ghosts and gods holding huge leg bones and rushing towards this side, shaking the earth. The momentum was definitely going to smash the city gate and tower together. The huge leg bones might even collapse the city wall!
"Leave the city and form a formation." said the voice that was frighteningly calm.

On the Qingzhou city wall, the more than 200 talisman masters flew out without thinking and landed in front of the city gate. In front of them were ghosts and gods rushing towards them!
Liu Dingchen's scalp tingled. Those ghosts and gods that were hundreds of feet tall were as powerful as the masters in the Three Corpses Realm and the Return to Void Realm!

With such a group of ghosts and gods rushing over, are these talisman masters still likely to survive?
Without caring about anything else, he reached out and grabbed the Ten Thousand Souls Banner, flew out, and shouted, "I'm here to lend you a hand!"

He was filled with grief and was ready to die. He thought to himself, "I dare not turn against the Wan family, I dare not turn against the Thirteenth Family, I have been a coward for decades, but today I want to be a real man!"

At this time, a young man flew over from the city wall and landed in the formation formed by the talisman masters. A calm voice came from the young man: "Governor Liu, step back and hold the formation. Everyone, the Ten Absolute Spirit Banner Formation."

Liu Dingchen was stunned, looking at the young man in disbelief. He saw that the young man was about fourteen or fifteen years old, dressed in blue, simple yet elegant clothes. There was a small courtyard floating behind his head, and light was blooming in the courtyard.

"Red horse thief, red horse thief..."

His heart was filled with shock and fear. The Red Horse Bandits who swept across Qingzhou were back!

"boom!"

More than two hundred talismans of the Lingqian Ten Absolute Array lit up, with Li Tianqing as the center of the array, turning an area of ​​more than ten miles in radius into a killing field!

Li Tianqing rushed towards the ghosts and gods who came to kill him, and the 255 talisman masters moved with his body, and the formation was never broken. They were blessed by the Ten Absolute Formation Talismans, and at this moment, they were surrounded by golden light and more than ten feet high, like gods from China, with monstrous murderous intent, and rolled the ghosts and gods into the killing formation!
In an instant, blood spurted out and severed limbs and heads flew everywhere.

In the Ten Absolute Formation, murderous intent to exterminate everything was rampant, gods and demons were everywhere, lightning and thunder were flashing, and the next moment the formation suddenly stopped, turning from extreme movement to extreme stillness.

There was a continuous sound of "pa pa pa", which was the sound of the flesh and blood of ghosts being cut into pieces and falling from the sky. Liu Dingchen looked at this scene in horror and was speechless.

He knew that he would die on the tower when facing the first wave of attacks from these ghosts and gods. The power of the Qingzhou soldiers and the Ten Thousand Souls Banner was simply not enough to stop them. Even with the Earth Book, they could not stop the attacks from the ghosts and monsters, not to mention these ghosts and gods.

But after just one encounter, all the ghosts and gods died under the city.

At this time, the thousand-foot-tall ghost god in the distance roared and rushed over. He had four legs and two upper bodies, each with two arms, and his body was connected by a bone chain. He held a huge divine weapon in his hand, like a guillotine.

Liu Dingchen looked pale and had no desire to fight.

The thousand-foot ghost god is an invincible creature. One blow is enough to flatten half of Qingzhou City!
How to resist this?

Li Tianqing raised his hand: "You guys step back."

The talisman masters around him retreated one after another, leaving him alone standing in front, facing the extremely powerful ghost god alone!
"Disciple Li Tianqing."

He bowed and said in a deep voice, "Please invite the Holy Emperor Guan to come!"

"Wow—"

In the courtyard behind his head, brilliant divine light shot up into the sky, boundless divine power shook the sky, and the divine horse Red Hare leaped out, with Red Hare and Crescent Moon Sword. Li Tianqing stood on his horse with his sword drawn and closed his eyes.

"Da da da!"

Horse hooves were flying, and a man, a horse, and a sword rushed straight towards the thousand-foot-tall ghost god.

Liu Dingchen and the soldiers on the city wall stared at this scene in a daze. The red horse thief who disappeared that year appeared again. The red horse crossed the sky and turned into a ray of light. The young man on the horse opened his eyes, murderous aura filled the sky, holding the knife and slashing!

The sharp sword light pierced through the sky horizontally and vertically, as if dividing the moonlit sky into four neat parts. The power penetrated the void and swept away everything!
This knife is so stunning!

It's fascinating.

Li Tianqing put away his sword, Red Hare stopped, stood with the sword horizontally, and the horse neighed.

The thousand-foot-tall ghost god showed a look of horror on his face, and his gait was staggering as if he was drunk. Suddenly, his bone chains exploded, and his body split in the middle. Then a beam of blood spurted out from his waist, and his body was cut into four pieces!
The huge corpse fell down with a loud bang.

Behind Li Tianqing, boundless divine light was surging. A thousand-foot-tall god stood behind him, stroking his beard and reciting the "Spring and Autumn Annals". His loyalty and righteousness will go down in history.

The Guandi Temple behind Li Tianqing's head was getting bigger and bigger. The temple was like a piece of blue sky, covering an area. Wherever it covered, the sun was shining and the flowers were blooming in spring.

That night, there was excitement inside and outside Qingzhou City. People rushed to tell each other, and the incense at the Guandi Temple was lit again.

The Red Horse Bandit is back.

After the commotion, Li Tianqing settled down in Qingzhou. After a period of fighting, the situation in Qingzhou was relatively stable.

That day, he offered up the Heavenly Court Order, walked into the Lesser Universe, and came to the painted wall. He stopped for a long time and wrote on the wall with incense ash: "The upright man in green clothes lives up to my heart. Li Tianqing, the scholar from Heaven, left a message. I am still alive!"

He brushed off the incense ash on his palm and was about to leave when he saw a line of words slowly forming on the wall.

Li Tianqing was stunned, and carefully looked around the painting wall. There was no one else except him. However, the writing on the painting wall continued to form!

"My life in Yanzhou is so difficult! But I can still hold on. Cheng Qi, the talisman master of the Heavenly Palace, left a message. I'm still alive!"

Li Tianqing shouted: "Cheng Qi! Is that you?"

No one responded to him.

They seemed to be in the same vast void, yet they were in different spaces. Even when they stood together, they could not see each other.

"Hold on!" he shouted.

Cheng Qi still didn't respond to him.

Li Tianqing stood in silence for a long time, then whispered, "You must hold on until the True King finds you and the rest of you."

He turned and left Xiaozhutian.

Chen Shi came to Xiaozhutian again and stood in front of the painted wall. There were many more lines of text on the wall.

"Times are tough, but I saved hundreds of people. Tian Yue'e in heaven left a message. I'm still alive!"

"I opened a school in Tongzhou, and many children are learning Taoism with me. Mr. Tianting, Fu Leisheng left a message."

"If you are still alive, remember to come to Lingzhou to see me. Situ Wen from the Heavenly Court left a message."

"I may not be able to see the light of day again, but I will try my best to persevere. The Heavenly Court will have no way to leave a message for me."

"I'm still alive! You have to hold on! Heavenly Palace Fu Xiu left a message."

……

Chen Shi read through the text line by line. Many respectable and lovely people from the Heavenly Court had been here before. They might still be in this small world, but they could not be seen. They left their texts to cheer each other up and encourage each other, asking the other brothers in the Heavenly Court to persevere and never give up.

But where there is hope, there is a future.

As long as there is a glimmer of hope left, there will definitely be a bright future ahead!
Chen Shi left Xiaozhutian and stood on a high hill, looking at the Hundred Thousand Mountains in the underworld in the distance. He suddenly said, "Teacher, follow me!"

Zhu Xiucai was stunned and asked, "Where are you going?"

"Follow me to find them, find those temples that have emerged from the ground, and revive the Chinese gods."

Chen Shi smiled, turned around and looked at the stone tablet godmother, and said in a deep voice, "I want to borrow the power of the gods to revive my godmother!"

Zhu Xiucai was shocked and flew down from the old willow tree. His body became smaller and smaller, gradually returning to the size of a normal person. He landed beside him and said, "Okay, I'll go with you."

Chen Shi came to the stone tablet, lit three incense sticks for his godmother, stood up, put Zhu Xiucai into the small temple behind his mind, and floated away.

Behind his head, on the shrine in the middle of the small temple, sat his soul. On his left was Xiao Linden, and on his right was Shiji Niangniang. Behind the temple was another small temple, on which sat Zhu Xiucai.

The temple shook slightly and grew slowly.

Zhu Xiucai looked and saw that there was an extra room in the small temple. Next to his shrine, another shrine gradually appeared, waiting to be filled.

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